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MCCC distributes

thousands of books to
schools and community

Forganizations

orget jetting of to

exotic locales. Some
Mercer County

Community College

(MCCC) students
spent their spring

break as volunteers
for First Book, a

national initiative that seeks to
provide new high-quality books to

schools and county organizations
that serve preschoolers through

12th graders. Close to 30,000
books were either delivered or picked up from can-American Chamber of Commerce of New
MCCC staff
MCCC’s Trenton campus, with 59 local schools Jersey and N.J. Secretary of Higher Education
and community organizations beneiting from Rochelle Hendricks.
member
Terrence Carter
the program.
Approximately 50 volunteers participated in and students
MCCC joins Burlington County College, the project, including student government rep- Shawn Thorpe

which launched the program in New Jersey in resentatives, Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society and Tonya
Watkins label
2014 after three years of planning by the Afri-
students, and members of Youth Corps.
and sort books.

THE SHOW GOES ON

GRANT HELPS TO BROADEN

UDIENCE FOR OPERA IN NJ
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hanks in part to a $5,000 its production of Giacomo Puccini’s La
grant from Investors Bank in Boheme in April, as well as its public out-

partnership with the Roma reach program. “Boheme is able to bring

Bank Community Foundation, opera to libraries and adult communities
Boheme Opera NJ can attract throughout the region,” says Boheme

wider audiences. The grant helped fund Opera NJ Managing Director Sandra
the opera company’s 26th season and
Pucciatti.

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